Feminist Aliens, Black Vampires, and Gay Witches: Creating a Critical Polis using SF Television in the College Composition Classroom

The ability to critically consume entertainment media is a necessary skill for an educated and functional society--a polis; however, contemporary college students are experienced consumers of pop culture but not necessarily critical ones. Since categories of identity (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, dis/ability, culture) are constructed, maintained, and reified through mainstream forces including, powerfully, the media, the ability to critique these forces is critical for an educated polis. Drawing on scholarship in critical pedagogy, cultural studies, and media literacy, this study uncovers the relative effectiveness of speculative fiction (SF) television as a pedagogical tool for developing critical thinking skills in college level English composition students. This study answers the question: To what extend does SF aid students in engaging in deeper critical thinking, especially about critical categories of identity, while simultaneously meeting the overall goals for college-level composition courses? The study reveals that SF television is especially useful to the goals of college communication courses, especially first-year composition courses, which specifically attempt to teach critical thinking. This occurs in part because SF creates a safe space for students to explore strange new worlds of difference in identity where usual tendencies to resist critique are ameliorated by the distance inherent in students\u27 orientation to the genre

A Longitudinal Evaluation of the Ogden City Head Start Program

This study attempted to investigate the differences in the Head Start population of the Ogden City Schools and to determine if the differences had a significant influence on ability comparisons. An attempt was also made to evaluate the longitudinal benefits of Head Start training. The original data was collected in the 1966-67 evaluation of the Head Start program. Additional data was collected as this original group of Head Start children progressed through kindergarten, first, and second grades. Variables considered in this study were, residence, age, sex, socio-economic deprivation, family constellation, and ethnic group. In addition, a comparison was made of children in kindergarten, first, and second grades, who had Head Start, to peers who had no Head Start experience. The variables were tested by analysis of variance and chi-square. Results of the analyses of data revealed that significant differences existed in the following categories: residence, socio-economic deprivation, ethnic groups, kindergarten, and first grade. The difference in residence support the Ogden City Schools labeling the target area as a impoverished part of the district that needs additional services, The criteria of family income or socio-economic deprivation is a justifiable measure to use in determining who should be admitted to the Head Start program. It was also determined that the minority ethnic groups made the most gain s in the Head Start program with the order of gain being Negro, Spanish American and Caucasian. It was also concluded that the children who had received the Head Start experience were able to maintain their gains through the first grade. School apparently has a gradual ameliorating influence however as the differences between second graders who had Head Start and matched peers who did not have Head Start were no longer significant

Subordinate Clauses And Interruption Clauses

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/98155/1/j.1467-1770.1962.tb01264.x.pd

The Use of Fashion Therapy as Adjunctive Therapy in the Rehabilitation of Psychiatric Patients

Mental illness is one of the greatest public health problems and foremost challenges of our time. However, because of improved medical practices and modern research methods, more mental patients are now being released and returned to society than at any other recorded period. The mentally ill person loses touch with reality. Things that once were of primary concern are no longer important. Many mental patients become accustomed to carelessness in dress and personal habits. This state of deterioration often remains as a mark of mental illness, and the resulting inappropriate dress frequently limits the activity of the individual. The patient may not even be received socially. In some cases mental patients who have been ready for release have hesitated to go back into society as they lacked the necessary self-confidence regarding their personal appearance, and felt that they would not fit into the society from which they originally came. The way that an individual is dressed and groomed often has a dual influence. It not only influences the way he is treated by others, but can affect his feelings toward himself. The hospital staffs treating mental patients are becoming increasingly aware of the socio-psychological aspects of clothing. Therefore, volunteers have been recruited to help encourage patients to improve personal appearance through disseminating information about current fashions and methods of personal grooming The name that has been coined for this activity is fashion therapy. The purpose of this study is to make a survey of state and private mental hospitals throughout the United States to ascertain: The use of fashion therapy in hospitals Methods and procedures Emphasized areas Personnel active The evaluation of program Effectiveness Expected continuation Type of study (permanent or pilot) Limiting factors The need for trained specialists to work in hospitals as fashion therapists

A study of the problems involved in writing and producing six original half-hour radio plays

Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Speech, Dramatics, and Radio, 1946Includes bibliographical references (leaf 249

High-throughput gene discovery in the rat

The rat is an important animal model for human diseases and is widely used in physiology. In this article we present a new strategy for gene discovery based on the production of ESTs from serially subtracted and normalized cDNA libraries, and we describe its application for the development of a comprehensive nonredundant collection of rat ESTs. Our new strategy appears to yield substantially more EST clusters per ESTs sequenced than do previous approaches that did not use serial subtraction. However, multiple rounds of library subtraction resulted in high frequencies of otherwise rare internally primed cDNAs, defining the limits of this powerful approach. To date, we have generated >200,000 3′ ESTs from >100 cDNA libraries representing a wide range of tissues and developmental stages of the laboratory rat. Most importantly, we have contributed to ∼50,000 rat UniGene clusters. We have identified, arrayed, and derived 5′ ESTs from >30,000 unique rat cDNA clones. Complete information, including radiation hybrid mapping data, is also maintained locally at http://genome.uiowa.edu/clcg.html. All of the sequences described in this article have been submitted to the dbEST division of the NCBI

Gestaciones producidas con embriones bovinos clonados por transferencia nuclear

With the aim of obtaining pregnancies from nuclear transfer embryos reconstituted with somatic cells and enucleated oocytes, bovine oocytes from slaughterhouse were matured in vitro and enucleated by micromanipulation. Nuclear donor cells were obtained from the ear of an adult cow, cultured for 9 to 14 days and cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen. Confluent cells were inserted individually in the perivitelline space of enucleated oocytes and treated with 2 electric pulses to induce fusion. The reconstituted zygotes were then cultured for 2 hours and treated with ionomycin and 6-dimethylaminopurine for their activation. The embryos were cultured in synthetic oviduct fluid for 8 to 9 days to obtain the blastocyst stage. These blastocysts were transferred to recipient heifers 7 to 9 days after oestrus. The ultrasound pregnancy diagnosis was done about 30 days after recipient oestrus. Five pregnancies were obtained from 25 transfers (20%). Two of them were lost at 42 days and a third at 120 days. This seems to be the first report on pregnancies obtained by cloned embryos in Chile.  El presente estudio comunica la obtención de gestaciones de embriones clonados por transferencia nuclear de células somáticas en bovinos por primera vez en Chile. Ovocitos bovinos obtenidos de ovarios de matadero fueron madurados in vitro y enucleados por micromanipulación. Células donantes de núcleos fueron obtenidas de la oreja de una vaca adulta, cultivadas por 9-14 días y criopreservadas en nitrógeno líquido. Células somáticas confluentes fueron desagregadas e insertadas individualmente en el espacio perivitelino de un ovocito enucleado. Cada par ovocito-célula obtenido fue tratado con dos pulsos eléctricos para inducir su fusión y luego los embriones fueron cultivados por 2 horas y tratados con ionomicina y 6-dimetilaminopurina para su activación. Los embriones fueron cultivados en medio sintético oviductual por 8-9 días hasta el estado de blastocisto. Blastocistos fueron transferidos a vaquillas receptoras 7 a 9 días postcelo. Se realizaron 25 transferencias a vaquillas receptoras y se logró la preñez en 5 (20%) de ellas. Dos de éstas abortaron a los 42 días y una tercera a los 120 días. Las dos vaquillas preñadas restantes mantuvieron su gestación (más de 45 días) hasta el momento de escribir esta comunicación. &nbsp